Yes, I would love to be able to answer your question on that.
I'm going to give you a story of a soldier suffering from PTSD in Alberta. His wife and four kids were in the vehicle and the RCMP pulled them over because he was confining his wife and four kids thinking that he was in the Hells Angels and driving his minivan down the road. He was having these delusions. He got pulled over by the police, and they arrested him for confining his wife and family and they sent him for psychiatric care. Now he has a wife and four kids who have no money, because he holds the bank accounts.
I called the MFRC, and I found out that the military family resource centre does not look after veterans. I was surprised that they wouldn't look after the families of veterans who are in the Edmonton area.
So then I called OSSIS, operational stress injury social support, which does look after veterans in that area, but it is a program that is very underfunded. If the program were better funded, there would be better support for, in this case, a wife and four kids, who actually were being evicted at the same time.
This family ended up being split and heading for a divorce because there was no support for this family when he was arrested and incarcerated and sent for psychiatric care. The family was lost. There was no clergy even. OSSIS could have a whole list of clergymen from the Edmonton area who could go and sit with the family and help them through a situation like this.
There are lots of possible solutions, but first we need more support for OSSIS, and we need to expand that program, because the MFRC does not support the veteran's family at all. I would like to see more support, more money put into OSSIS, more people working for OSSIS, and I would like them to start partnering with clergy so that there would be full treatment for body, soul, and spirit.